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    eSignal intraday volume question

    Jay, I know this is more hardware-related, but since you brought up a pertinent topic: CPU - meaning the processor itself? If so, a larger capacity number-cruncher? Or, do you mean additional/newer generation memory? Or both processor and memory? (from the eSignal website): A[n...
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    LCD vs CRT for trading

    Why not buy a disposable flash camera (if not using your own), take your trading desk pix, shoot the remaining shots on whatever else, and have the film developed as a CD, enabling you to download what you want to Hardware-show & tell on ET? I believe your Sam's Club, etc.,-developed pix also...
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    Is Jim Cramer a Hypocrite, shyster, just plain stupid, or is he a genius

    That's exactly it - Showtime. Cramer's Mad Money is Entertainment, and you can bet that he and CNBC will ride it for as long as they can - and why not? Just have some laughs and allow his market-making-inefficiencies :D to work for you...month after month... In 1988, after Rush...
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    Absolute safest place to keep money

    Because, in large part, they are smart enough and/or connected enough to immigrate with miner/dealer/wholesale-acquired diamonds; and, in most cases, have the opportunity to trade/cash in those gems for real property and the like with others of their same culture/neighborhoods.
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    US tax implication for non-us citizen.

    Have him carefully read the following, including click-throughs, regarding non-residents trading in U.S.-based accounts: http://www.greencompany.com/EducationCenter/GTTRecTraTypNonResident.shtml
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    Writing off expenses when you're at a prop firm?

    Of interest, including, "LLC members receive a Form K-1": http://greencompany.com/EducationCenter/GTTRecTraTypPropTrade.shtml#matters Others may also want to note: "Important tax matters for proprietary traders Some proprietary traders are treated as either independent contractors...
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    Anybody use IB TWS with an old computer?

    What trading computer set-up do you run TWS with now?
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    Medical & Dental Insurance

    Some of these websites should be helpful: http://www.iii.org/individuals/health/ Including: "... Ask your insurance company if you can convert its group policy to an individual policy. You will pay a higher rate than you did before and your benefits may be limited, but the terms will...
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    What do prop shops offices look like?

    Trader does look well-trained & disciplined for a newbie. Did he earn his Stripes in a 4-week, or an 8-week Vegas Boot Camp?...
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    Some Caveats on WIN XP Pro X64 Edition Upgrade

    Interesting read from PC World on whether 64-bit PC'ers should upgrade from Windows XP to the new X64, or wait for the long-anticipated? Windows Longhorn OS in 2006 (= 2007)... http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120913,00.asp
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    What do prop shops offices look like?

    Great 'toon! It does seem to bolster the argument for trading in a well-run office with successful traders and solid managers, or, if home-office trading, having an active Paltalk-type link to other successful head-office or at-home-office traders.
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    Taxes

    More good, legal trader tax-saving ideas: http://www.greencompany.com/EducationCenter/InTheMediaActiveTrader.shtml http://www.greencompany.com/International/index.shtml
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    Trading Halted At Nyse

    The NYSE will NOT reopen until the usual 9:30 A.M. Open tomorrow... ... some problem with the SIAC reconnecting with the trading frims... Think they'll finish the remaining four minutes of today's Close prior to the Open?...
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    Trading Halted At Nyse

    From the NYSE website glossary: Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) SIAC operates the New York and American Stock Exchanges automation and communications systems to support trading, market data reporting, and surveillance activities. SIAC also supports the NSCC's nationwide...
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    What do prop shops offices look like?

    HA! Gotcha!! We see that hurriedly-hidden bullwhip laying under the Boot Camp trading room desks... :D The photo op-closed vertical blinds in the 2-story training room (pix 2 & 3) obscure a nice view of the mountains ringing the NW/N/NE sides of Vegas, as I recall... All adds up to...
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    Why "Paradigm Shift" thread has been removed from this board?

    Ya gotta have empathy for the Chit Chat Mods, though... down there knee deep and shovelin' poop day after day... I'll bet Econ Mods TGregg and Avalanche have long lost count of the threads they've been forced to dump to keep that forum from becoming the Chit Chat II of fatalistic...
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    Why "Paradigm Shift" thread has been removed from this board?

    Guess this harrytrader-south thread will soon be headin' down the chute into Chit Chat, after all...
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    Why "Paradigm Shift" thread has been removed from this board?

    May we, please, also become so fortunate?
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    inexpensive, cool trading desks

    Here's one simple, relatively inexpensive way to go if appearance is not as important as function: A Baker's Rack available at Sam's Club, Costco, Ikea, restaurant supply, etc...
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    Hedge fund guy bites the dust

    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Before the SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Release No. 45669 / March 28, 2002 INVESTMENT ADVISERS ACT OF 1940 Release No. 2025 / March 28, 2002 ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING File No. 3-10745...
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